Professional Biography:
Janet Kennedy, MS, LMFT has been licensed as a Marriage, Family Therapist since 1998. She is currently licensed and practicing in both California and Utah. Due to 12 years spent in a remote "frontier" area she has received multiple concurrant opportunities and developed expertise that would not have been available in urban milieus.
After attending both Westridge School for Girls and Blair High School in Pasadena, California, she obtained her collegiate education at the University of Colorado, Boulder; the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and California State University, Los Angeles. With academic honors, she earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Science in Psychology with an emphasis on trauma and abuse as well as children, couples, and family systems. In addition to furthering her education through hundreds of hours of continuing education, she has received certification as a mediator, interventionist, and master addictions counselor.
Her career has been diverse and includes immersion in both urban and rural cultures. Although her private practice has always served a wide selection of issues and diagnoses, Ms. Kennedy has spent much of her career working with 4 primary cohorts: 1) individuals, couples, and families; 2) individuals, including combat veterans, affected by PTSD resulting from trauma and/or abuse, (including incest, rape, combat PTSD, and military sexual assault 3) individuals and families addressing addiction and dependency issues and 4) employers and employees either wishing to improve the workplace environment or responding to workplace trauma.
She has been a consultant and trainer. She has provided corportate trainings and facilitation to major clients including the National Forest Service, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the National Park Service. She has provided community based education workshops at locations including Northern Inyo Hospital, Rotary Inernational, Head Start, and Bishop High School District. For several years she was the Mental Health Consultant for all Inyo and Mono County (California) Head Start Pre-Schools.
Inolved in rural workplace interventions,she has conducted employee mediations, critical incident stress de-briefings, team-buildings and other corporate trainings for clients such as the United States Forest Service, United States Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Southern California Edison and Northern Inyo Hospital. She recognized a lack of consumer choice and competition based program improvement on the remote Eastern Sierra and developed Court/Probation approved Domestic Violence Offenders, Relapse Prevention, and Adolescent Programs, once again under the auspecies of Share Too, Inc.
For over 5 years Janet Kennedy served as a court appointed mediator for Inyo and Mono County in family law cases dealing with child custody. For employee mediations she has been utilized heavily by such agencies as the National Forest Service and National Park Service. She is also trained and has conducted mediations for individuals and courts in other civil matters where alternate dispute resolution can be an effective conflict resolution method.
Prior to moving to the rural Eastern Sierra, she was an administrator and clinical director, both for a small start up corporation, Share Too, Inc. and for major employers such as Tenent. She provided clinical supervision for intern drug and alcohol counselors as well as continuing education for seasoned alcohol and drug professionals. An approved provider of continuing education for the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Counselors, she developed several CEU courses and was accepted to present multiple workshops at their annual conventions. While CEO for Share Too, Inc., she designed one of the first dual diagnosis hospital based programs in Southern California and the integrated model continues in use to this day.
Working with trauma for over 10 years, she has recently had the honor of working with active service members, both male and female from all branches of service, who were receiving in-patient treatment for combat and/or sexual PTSD, TBI's, depression, anxiety, adjustment issues and family instability. She is currently completing her certification as a TF-CBT specialist for trauma work with children and adolescents.
After attending both Westridge School for Girls and Blair High School in Pasadena, California, she obtained her collegiate education at the University of Colorado, Boulder; the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and California State University, Los Angeles. With academic honors, she earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Science in Psychology with an emphasis on trauma and abuse as well as children, couples, and family systems. In addition to furthering her education through hundreds of hours of continuing education, she has received certification as a mediator, interventionist, and master addictions counselor.
Her career has been diverse and includes immersion in both urban and rural cultures. Although her private practice has always served a wide selection of issues and diagnoses, Ms. Kennedy has spent much of her career working with 4 primary cohorts: 1) individuals, couples, and families; 2) individuals, including combat veterans, affected by PTSD resulting from trauma and/or abuse, (including incest, rape, combat PTSD, and military sexual assault 3) individuals and families addressing addiction and dependency issues and 4) employers and employees either wishing to improve the workplace environment or responding to workplace trauma.
She has been a consultant and trainer. She has provided corportate trainings and facilitation to major clients including the National Forest Service, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the National Park Service. She has provided community based education workshops at locations including Northern Inyo Hospital, Rotary Inernational, Head Start, and Bishop High School District. For several years she was the Mental Health Consultant for all Inyo and Mono County (California) Head Start Pre-Schools.
Inolved in rural workplace interventions,she has conducted employee mediations, critical incident stress de-briefings, team-buildings and other corporate trainings for clients such as the United States Forest Service, United States Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Southern California Edison and Northern Inyo Hospital. She recognized a lack of consumer choice and competition based program improvement on the remote Eastern Sierra and developed Court/Probation approved Domestic Violence Offenders, Relapse Prevention, and Adolescent Programs, once again under the auspecies of Share Too, Inc.
For over 5 years Janet Kennedy served as a court appointed mediator for Inyo and Mono County in family law cases dealing with child custody. For employee mediations she has been utilized heavily by such agencies as the National Forest Service and National Park Service. She is also trained and has conducted mediations for individuals and courts in other civil matters where alternate dispute resolution can be an effective conflict resolution method.
Prior to moving to the rural Eastern Sierra, she was an administrator and clinical director, both for a small start up corporation, Share Too, Inc. and for major employers such as Tenent. She provided clinical supervision for intern drug and alcohol counselors as well as continuing education for seasoned alcohol and drug professionals. An approved provider of continuing education for the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Counselors, she developed several CEU courses and was accepted to present multiple workshops at their annual conventions. While CEO for Share Too, Inc., she designed one of the first dual diagnosis hospital based programs in Southern California and the integrated model continues in use to this day.
Working with trauma for over 10 years, she has recently had the honor of working with active service members, both male and female from all branches of service, who were receiving in-patient treatment for combat and/or sexual PTSD, TBI's, depression, anxiety, adjustment issues and family instability. She is currently completing her certification as a TF-CBT specialist for trauma work with children and adolescents.